Staff

Dr Jonathan Wagner

Lecturer

Jonathan Wagner graduated with a MEng in Chemical Engineering from the University of Bath. After his degree, Jon joined BP as a process engineer on their graduate scheme with placements in Aberdeen (onshore support for Schiehallion FPSO) and at the CATS gas terminal in Teeside. In 2012, he returned to Bath to start a Doctorate in Sustainable Chemical technologies and completed his PhD in Chemical Engineering at the end of 2016. He then worked on the Horizon 2020 Photofuel project as a research associate in the REaCT group at Imperial College London before joining Loughborough University as a lecturer in the Department of Chemical Engineering in 2018.

- Thermochemical Conversion of Biomass

Investigation of the thermochemical transformation, i.e. hydrothermal liquefaction, of biomass into bio-oils, bio-char and bio-gas

- Biomass fractionation

Selective recovery and transformation of functional molecules from biomass

- Reactor design and operation

- Catalytic upgrading of bio-oils into fuels and chemicals

Development of novel catalytic materials for the removal of oxygen, nitrogen and other